Deep in the abandoned oasis, the underground caves are dark and depressing.
Xuan Pan was sitting on the cold crystal stone platform. The three Tomoe in his left eye seemed to be soaked in blood and were slowly rotating in a strange rhythm.
In his mind, an invisible system named [Cognitive Dimension] is operating at a speed beyond ordinary people's understanding, parsing the entire world into the most basic information flow.
In front of him, a small ball of golden-red mist floated quietly, exuding a majestic and violent aura.
This is exactly the part Yang Release Tailed Beast Chakra that he forcibly stripped out of One-Tail Jinchuriki Gaara. It is a combination of the purest life energy and the deepest resentment in the world.
Xuan closed his eyes, his mind sank into the depths of his consciousness, and a cold system prompt sounded.
[Start: Chakra Essence Analysis.]
In an instant, the golden-red mist was completely decomposed in his eyes.
It is no longer fuzzy energy, but three core elements that are clearly visible - the emerald green light particles representing the source of life, the dark red thread symbolizing endless hatred, and the pale golden Natural Energy connecting the entire planet.
The three are entangled and symbiotic in a mysterious spiral structure, forming the foundation of the power of Shukaku.
"Data recording completed." On the side, Saori, wearing research clothes, quickly wrote down the last stroke on the special scroll, her "
She raised her head and looked at Xuan with burning eyes. "Theoretically, as long as we can simulate Matatabi's unique Yin Release fluctuations, we can create a perfect 'bait' and completely deceive the perception barrier that Kumogakure has placed at the border of Land of Lightning!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xuan suddenly opened his eyes.
In those scarlet Sharingan, there was no emotion at all, only absolute reason and control.
He slowly raised his right hand and moved his fingertips slightly. The air around him seemed to be evacuated by an invisible force and instantly became thick and stagnant.
A cloud of gray-black mist quietly condensed. It was not as rich and majestic as the real Tailed Beast chakra, but it exuded a sense of coldness and corrosion that penetrated into the bone marrow. Even the hard crystals on the cave walls began to make a "sizzling" sound of being corroded.
"Successful." Xuan's voice was low and hoarse, as if coming from the depths of hell, "There is no need to capture Yugito Nii, I can...'create' a fake Two-Tails."
He was not bluffing, but stating a fact that was about to happen.
[Start: Law Simulation.]
As the system command was issued, the gray-black simulated chakra seemed to be given a soul, and its fluctuation frequency began to perfectly coincide with the Two-Tails data recorded by Saori.
With a flick of Xuan's finger, this ominous energy was accurately injected into a special seal box the size of a palm, engraved with complex runes.
Immediately afterwards, he gave the order again.
[Start: Information Anchoring.]
[Anchor target: Hidden Cloud Village Border Patrol emergency communication band previously intercepted.]
[Release information: False "Tailed Beast escape" high-risk signal.]
Invisible fluctuations penetrated the thick rock formations and endless deserts, spanned thousands of miles, and accurately invaded the communication network at the Land of Lightning border.
Almost at the same time, at a temporary outpost at the junction of Land of Lightning and Fire Country, the Hidden Cloud Village ninja Baba Tesshin responsible for monitoring suddenly jumped up from his seat and stared at the communicator with a dazzling red light in front of him.
"Alert! Alert! Abnormal fluctuations in Two-Tails chakra have been detected. The signal source... is moving at high speed! Location XXX, XXX!"
He immediately grabbed another communicator, his voice trembling with excitement. "Master Xuan, it's successful! Hidden Cloud Village has begun to urgently mobilize their ace unit 'Lightning Claw' and is heading at full speed towards the false coordinates we set!"
At the same time, thousands of miles away at Sunagakure, the atmosphere was so solemn that it almost dripped with water.
In the meeting hall, senior executive Hidden Sand Village Baki slammed the table, causing the heavy solid wood tabletop to crack.
His eyes were red and he roared, "Gaara, our Kazekage was defeated by the enemy in full view, and even had part of Tailed Beast's power taken away! This is no longer a defeat, this is a shame! It is a great shame and humiliation for the entire Sunagakure!"
Opposite him, the consultant Kizashi Haruno, who was wearing glasses and had a calm temperament, pushed the frame of his glasses coldly, and said without any wavering in his tone, "Then, Mr. Baki, what do you want to do? Immediately gather all the ninjas who can fight, Should we pursue the enemy who can easily defeat Jinchūriki? Or should we respond to Hidden Leaf Village's so-called 'Joint Annihilation Order' and send our already stretched troops to die as cannon fodder for them?"
His voice was not loud, but every word was heartfelt. "Don't be naive, those people from Hidden Leaf Village don't want to help us rescue Gaara at all. They want to use our hands to test the depth of the enemy. It's best for both us and the enemy to lose, so that they can reap the benefits!"
"You!" Baki was so angry that he was shaking all over, but couldn't find the words to refute for a while.
The two couldn't argue, and neither could convince the other.
On the hospital bed in the corner of the conference hall, the pale Gaara listened to all this quietly.
He closed his eyes tightly, but his slightly trembling fingers revealed the huge turmoil in his heart.
Once upon a time, he thought that the Shukaku in his body was the most powerful weapon in the village and the ultimate force to protect peace.
But now, he can't even hold on to his own strength. This "value" on which he relies for existence, this belief as a "symbol of peace", is crumbling and shattered bit by bit in the face of the ruthless reality.
Xuan had already anticipated all this.
In his script, Sunagakure's chaos is only the first step.
He took out a specially made talisman made of Iron Sand from his arms, with the iconic Gunbai family emblem of the Uchiha Clan clearly imprinted on it.
"Baba, send someone to 'accidentally' leave this thing on the route where the Hidden Leaf Village rescue team may pass."
The order was promptly executed.
Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, this talisman, which was enough to arouse the most sensitive nerves in the entire Shinobi World, was quickly presented to the desk of Hokage's office through the intelligence network installed by Hidden Leaf Village within Hidden Sand Village.
"The attacker... suspected Sasuke Uchiha remnants of the party intervened!"
This news was like a thunderbolt, instantly intensifying the already tense situation within Sunagakure.
Baki immediately seized this opportunity, advocated immediately severing all cooperation with Hidden Leaf Village, and shifted the direction of investigation to trace the clues of the Uchiha Clan.
Kizashi Haruno smelled something unusual from this information. "Why? Why is it the family crest of the Uchiha Clan? Since the enemy could steal Gaara quietly, how could they be so careless and leave such obvious evidence? This is too deliberate, like..."
It's like they are deliberately framed and framed to sow discord between Hidden Sand Village and Hidden Leaf Village!
Before he could finish his words, a communication ninja rushed in with a panicked expression, and the communication device in his hand was emitting a sharp alarm.
"No, sirs! Kumogakure has just issued the highest level wanted order to Five Great Nations - they found traces of Two-Tails at the border of Land of Lightning, and announced that any force or individual who hinders their search operation during this period will be regarded as a direct provocation and hostile act against Hidden Cloud Village!"
One stone stirs up a thousand waves!
The entire meeting hall fell silent for an instant.
Hidden Sand Village, Hidden Leaf Village, Hidden Cloud Village, three forces and three purposes, were forcibly mixed into the same Uzumaki Clan by an invisible big hand.
On the top of the sand dunes, the wind howled.
The black windbreaker rustled in the wind. He stood on a high place, his scarlet Sharingan looking indifferently into the distance.
In his field of vision, ninja troops representing three powerful forces in three directions were mobilizing their troops and moving towards the chessboard he carefully designed.
"You fight your battles."
The corner of his mouth curled up with a cold arc, he raised his hand, raised the container containing the remaining Yang Release Tailed Beast Chakra to his mouth, and slowly swallowed the golden-red energy in it into his mouth like drinking water.
The violent vitality and resentment exploded in his body instantly, but were forcibly suppressed and absorbed by a deeper and more domineering force.
Source-Core Scaffold, the core of power in his body, flashed with light, and the cold system prompt sounded again.
[Absorb high-purity Yang Release Chakra, Source-Core Scaffold structure optimization, the total amount of chakra is permanently increased by 18%.]
An unprecedented sense of fullness spread throughout his limbs and bones, and the three Tomoe in his left eye trembled violently, and the speed of rotation suddenly accelerated, as if he could penetrate the fog of time and space and clearly see the direction of every chess piece on the future battlefield.
"The more bonds there are, the more weaknesses there are, and the easier it is to be contained." He whispered to himself, his voice being blown away by the wind and sand, "And I only believe in the power in my own hands."
The night is like ink, falling quietly.
Xuan led his most elite subordinates, like a group of ghosts dormant in the darkness, quietly approaching the border of Land of Lightning.
Deep in the rolling mountains ahead, shrouded in clouds and mist, is Two-Tails Jinchūriki Yugito Nii's real recuperation base.
In his right eye, the weird Mangekyō Sharingan slowly rotated, and his pupil power was activated, and he had already constructed a three-dimensional assault route map in his mind that was accurate to every rock and guard.
Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
Just when he was about to wave his hand to issue the general attack order, there was an extremely slight vibration in the sand behind him.
Xuan slowly turned back.
Under the moonlight, Kizashi Haruno stood there alone, looking at him with a complicated expression.
In his hand, he held tightly a glass test tube filled with dark red liquid.
"I know you are collecting data about Tailed Beast." His voice was unusually calm, not like a person who had just experienced a huge change in the village. "Here are the blood samples of Gaara, which may be useful for your 'research'."
He took two steps forward and placed the test tube on a rock between the two of them.
"I don't know what your purpose is, but if you can really control this power that even the five major villages are helpless..." He took a deep breath, "
Xuan's scarlet eyes looked at him quietly, her eyes as deep as an abyss, without any response.
He just turned around, faced his subordinates in the darkness, and waved his hand gently.
Go forward.
Dozens of black shadows disappeared into the night in an instant, leaving only Kizashi Haruno standing alone.
The strong wind picked up the sand and soon buried the footprints under his feet, as well as the trace of hope that seemed extremely weak in the face of absolute power.
High in the sky, a crow with scarlet pupils circled silently, watching all this indifferently.
It seems to be waiting, waiting for the fate of the next prey to be completely pronounced.
Passing through this border mountain range and hundreds of miles further south is one of the most dangerous areas in Land of Lightning - the southern volcanic group.
The place is shrouded in thick volcanic ash all year round, and the pungent smell of sulfur permeates the hot air, enough to scare away any uninvited visitors.
And in the center of that land of death, next to a huge active volcano crater and beside a surging lava lake, a figure was sitting alone in meditation.